Refinement of algorithms for the real-time simulation of human movements in computer models

The purpose of this research is to develop natural movement algorithms that are more computationally efficient than those presently being used. This paper provides a new mathematical algorithm for solving the inverse kinematic problems needed to simulate the limb movements of a 3-D virtual human figure. This is accomplished by first decoupling the system of equations, then performing singular value decomposition (SVD) on the resulting matrix of constants coefficients.